A Super-Easy GIF-Maker and Other Essential New Apps

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A Super-Easy GIF-Maker and Other Essential New Apps

As if there weren't enough GIFs on the Internet, now there can be more—and they can be of your face. The new app from Giphy makes it super-easy to GIF yourself or anyone around you, add some animated stickers, or make it a meme. Will you become the next viral GIF? Probably not, but that doesn't make it any less fun.

Wondr lets you have anonymous chat sessions with your Twitter followers, which might sound horribly unnecessary, but could actually be a great crowdsourcing tool. If you want input from the very smart people who follow you who also might not want to be identified, Wondr boots up an anonymous discussion with ease. And you can also use it to let your followers chat with you—if you're that cool.

This is just mean: Beep is for kids only, because the sound it uses as a notification is too high for us Olds to hear. The app's splash page explains it's great for "youngsters," so clearly it was not made by a teen. The best reason to download Beep is to see if you are cool anymore, and also to annoy any obnoxious youth in your vicinity.

Golden Hour is a magical time—anyone who's taken even one photography class has heard its praises sung. It's when the sky gets all dusky and (surprise) gold, and everything looks like an angel threw up on it. Rizon calculates when this time is approaching, letting you know when the best time for shooting is. It lets you add multiple locations, too, so you can keep all your photog friends in the know.